Tenth International Conference on Dialectology - August 1-6, 1999 St. John's, Newfoundland. The special theme of the 1999 conference is "Historical connections: Transported varieties and their origins."

Comparing and Classifying Dialects - A range of methods for measuring the phonetic distance between dialectal variants.

International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics - Dedicated to the international promotion of dialectology and geolinguistics, support of international enterprises, and the study of minority languages and dialects.

English Dialectology - The online components of a course on U.S. English dialectology. Includes the course readings and worksheets.

Community Language Collection - A searchable collection of audio and text clips, graphics and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina.

Dialectology and Sociolinguistics - Class notes for a general dialectology course.

The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America - Full text of the paper by William Labov. "Sociolinguistic research on linguistic change in progress has found rapid development of sound changes in most urbanized areas of North America, leading to increased dialect diversity. "

Yorkshire Dialect Society - The Yorkshire Dialect Society was founded in Bradford on 27 March l897.The Society's annual journal, "Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society," has made an important contribution to English language studies.

English Dialect Links - General, British, African, and Australasian dialects of English.

American Dialect Society List Archives - A web-searchable archive of the recent postings to the ADS-L archive.

International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics - Committee, membership, and publication information.

The American Dialect Homepage - Regional varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada. Articles, bibliographies, and links.

Lancashire Dialect Society - Membership information and some texts in the dialect.

International Dialects of English Archive - Collection of freely downloadable recordings of real people speaking English in their own native accents and dialects. Nearly 300 4-minute MP3 samples available.

Come to Butthead - Thesis on fishermen's dialect in Scotland; glossary of fish names in Scotland from the 1920s.

The Alternative Dictionaries - A collaborative dictionary of multilingual slang. Not for the faint-hearted.

American Dialect Links - Links to accents and dialect links, for Canadian, American and West Indian languages.